Interface special education – rural education: policy guidelines and knowledge production in Brazil

This text has focus on the articulation between the Special Education and the Rural Education. Precisely, it seeks for introduce the Political and Epistemological scenarios of the interface between the two mentioned education modalities in Brazil. Therefore, the clarified ideas in this work were organized in three moments. First of all, it was selected precepts provided by the Brazilian political-normative documents related to Special Education, Rural Education and the interface between both. In the next step, this paper indicates a brief overview of the production of academic knowledge based on data provided from doctoral dissertations, master’s theses and the performance of studies group of the subject. Finally, it is established approximations between the Special Education and the Rural Education and also it is beckoned for some Political and Epistemological challenges for the interface between these education modalities.